Born in Germany to a French father and American mother, and married into an Indian family, Nicolas Chevaillier is a passport-collecting screenwriter who writes in German, French, and English (and with the help of cowriters, in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil). Equally at home in film and series, he specializes in thrillers but is genre-agnostic, and has built his career around projects that bridge his various worlds — Germany, France, USA, and India.

 

Nicolas studied screenwriting and directing in Los Angeles and is a graduate of DFFB's Serial Eyes, Europe's premier post-graduate program for series writers and showrunners. He thrives in the writers room, whether as head writer or staff writer, and believes deeply that screenwriting is a collaborative medium — one where the best work emerges through rewriting and the productive friction between art and commerce.

 

Nicolas came to screenwriting through an unusual door. After years as an animator and motion designer for the US television industry, he wrote, directed, and produced a micro-budget mockumentary feature, Victor’s History. It won Best Film at the New Orleans Film Festival and Best Foreign Film at the Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai. That India premiere proved fateful: Nicolas’ screenwriting career officially began in Bollywood, writing for some of the most exciting Indian production companies and streamers, including Disney+, Audible, and Amazon Prime Video. 

 

Nicolas’ own spec projects often gravitate towards cultural exchange, class dynamics, and the kind of open endings that are thematically cathartic but leave the viewer wanting more. A true-crime junkie and voracious researcher, he arrives at every project — his own or someone else's — with a plotter's appetite for structural problems.

 

When he’s not writing, he can be found in his cellar, fussing over his home-made honey wines, or working with his daughter on his animated Youtube series for kids, Book in a Nook, which has 12 million views and counting.